Cutting that last bit of chain with the moose FACING you took more cohones than I'll probably ever muster up.

Good job Ranger dude. I feel you have an Aesop's Fables moment coming back to you where you get in a brawl or something and all the sudden "swing moose" busts in and kicks the living shiate out of all of your attackers.

brap:I feel you have an Aesop's Fables moment coming back to you where you get in a brawl or something and all the sudden "swing moose" busts in and kicks the living shiate out of all of your attackers.

First step, drink 12 beers. Second step, "watch this." Third step, use a pocketknife to cut the rubber yellow swing holding the antlers, preferably while sitting on top of the swingset while Rambo plays in the background on a black and white TV.

If they could get that close, why were they going for the chain links near the moose? They could have let him go by cutting them at the top near the structure. Granted, the moose would still have the swing on his antlers, but it's not a rope - it would have eventually fallen off.

soosh:Though I did wonder why he didn't get up at the level of the top of the slide to cut those.

Because the chain and swing would have still been tangled in the antlers - potentially getting snagged on someone else and killing it then. I hope that the ranger finished cutting down the remaining chains and swings so another animal doesn't get caught.

And if you listen closely, you can hear his 440 carbon stainless steel balls gently clanging together as he approached....

Seriously. Those can be quite ill-tempered animals, even under the best of circumstances. Add in their size and power, and you have an irritable animal with the ability to crush you with a thought and a casual motion.

I once had to have a staring contest at a 30 foot distance with a mountain lion at 2 a.m. on a moonlight night in the middle of the Wyoming badlands in order to get back to camp from the latrine. I would STILL rather do that again than what this guy was doing. Far less sketchy.

Swiftstone2012:And if you listen closely, you can hear his 440 carbon stainless steel balls gently clanging together as he approached....

Seriously. Those can be quite ill-tempered animals, even under the best of circumstances. Add in their size and power, and you have an irritable animal with the ability to crush you with a thought and a casual motion.

I once had to have a staring contest at a 30 foot distance with a mountain lion at 2 a.m. on a moonlight night in the middle of the Wyoming badlands in order to get back to camp from the latrine. I would STILL rather do that again than what this guy was doing. Far less sketchy.

If that story is true, then its a good thing you already went to the bathroom/Can they smell urine?//That's like liquid fear!

Stantz:Can someone tell me why a lot of mobile phone footage these days looks like it was shot with a steadicam rig?

Judging by the strange angle shifting that can be seen, like what you might see in a flexible mirror, it would not surprise me if someone had run this through some stabilization software or something before posting it.

HexMadroom:Stantz: Can someone tell me why a lot of mobile phone footage these days looks like it was shot with a steadicam rig?

Judging by the strange angle shifting that can be seen, like what you might see in a flexible mirror, it would not surprise me if someone had run this through some stabilization software or something before posting it.

Yep, youtube has that option now when you upload videos... I find the effect to be a bit... "dreamy" at times.

Cerebral Knievel:HexMadroom: Stantz: Can someone tell me why a lot of mobile phone footage these days looks like it was shot with a steadicam rig?

Judging by the strange angle shifting that can be seen, like what you might see in a flexible mirror, it would not surprise me if someone had run this through some stabilization software or something before posting it.

Yep, youtube has that option now when you upload videos... I find the effect to be a bit... "dreamy" at times.

That explains a lot. Some vids look like a camera pointed at a TV screen

Stantz:Cerebral Knievel: HexMadroom: Stantz: Can someone tell me why a lot of mobile phone footage these days looks like it was shot with a steadicam rig?

Judging by the strange angle shifting that can be seen, like what you might see in a flexible mirror, it would not surprise me if someone had run this through some stabilization software or something before posting it.

Yep, youtube has that option now when you upload videos... I find the effect to be a bit... "dreamy" at times.

That explains a lot. Some vids look like a camera pointed at a TV screen

I first discoverd this when I was taking video of my RC sailboat club having a little regatta and uploaded it to the tubes... thing comes back saying that "there appears to be a lot of shake in your video, would you like us to correct it?" so I say to myself, hey, how about yeah! I didn't think it was all that shaky to begin with, I try to be on top of that stuff, when I get stationary, lean the cam against a tree or something. stuff like that.

so I let the thing do its steady cam thing, and it came back... dreamy.. kinda like that third eye, observing thing.

quite frankly? given the option? I would rather build a simple counter balance cam mount for the thing and go that route than do the dreamy reboot of the upload.

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

HexMadroom:Stantz: Can someone tell me why a lot of mobile phone footage these days looks like it was shot with a steadicam rig?

Judging by the strange angle shifting that can be seen, like what you might see in a flexible mirror, it would not surprise me if someone had run this through some stabilization software or something before posting it.

Hmm. The smartphone has a built-in accelerometer and attitude sensor. I wonder if the camera software could be programmed to self-stabilize the image during filming....